A Northern working class family man fallen on hard times decides to take a job as a self-employed van driver delivering packages to help ease his families financial woes…
This film was heartbreaking and shines a light on the issues and despicable working conditions involved with this sort of work. At one scene - at the family dinner table with the parents and their young daughter - I actually very nearly cried.
It’s a Ken Loach film with amateur actors and they all did rather well. I thought this was better than I Daniel, Blake, tbh.
A middle-aged dressmaker in 1950s London meets a young woman in a cafe and starts a relationship with her both as his lover and as his muse.
This film, for me, is quite a lot better than The Master and a whole lot weirder. The foundations of their relationship drastically alter over the course of the film. First he’s the domineering man and she the timid - somewhat pathetic woman and by the end, she’s the dominant one and he the almost pathetic one.
The character that DDL plays is a very interesting one because he is simulataneously the strong and capable man - while also being prone to devolve into a spoilt brat child having childlike outbursts and temper tantrums.
Watched V for Vendetta last night, always been an easy go to for me when I’ve spent 30 minutes brainless scrolling Netflix for something to watch.
They seem to have nearly all the Spidey films on there at the moment so might watch a few of them this weekend while the other half is away, in preparation for No Way Home.
Looking forward to giving Tobias Maguire another chance in the role and seeing if I’m perhaps a little too harsh on him sometimes.
I don’t think you can look to harsh on a bloke who looks in his 40s chasing a bus full of school kids.
Never got the Toby Spiderman hype he just looked to old for the role and Spiderman 2 was the only good one that was entertaining. Garfield was a better Spiderman with his quick one liners.
Honestly thought it was very good. Don’t know much about Jonathan Larson or his works but Andrew Garfield does a wonderful job or portraying the troubled genius. It’s big numbers are really big and enjoyable and lots of cameos from the stars of Braodway and The West End (which I only know cos I looked it up mostly).
